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Full Idea
Grounding is a kind of explanation - and specifically, the kind of metaphysical explanation that metaphysicians are after.
Gist of Idea
Grounding is a kind of explanation, suited to metaphysics
Source
Barbara Vetter (Potentiality [2015], 4.5)
Book Ref
Vetter,Barbara: 'Potentiality: from Dispositions to Modality' [OUP 2015], p.133
A Reaction
Depending on how you interpret 'grounding', it is plausible that it is the sort of explanation that physicists and economists are after as well. If the aim is to understand the structure of everything, the target is to know what grounds what.